aquapub
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A man is suing a drug company for making a Parkinson's drug that allegedly made him gamble away $14,000. The drug does lead to "compulsive behavior" in a small portion of the population, but the company followed all the rules, did all the testing legally necessary, and placed warning labels about this on their medication.
Remember Viox? That shut down 3 plants and killed 6,000 American jobs. Go Democrats. Eventually, trial lawyers are going to do to drug development what they did to flu vaccines-make it more of a liability than it is worth for companies to even try. There are many, many advanced drugs companies have developed for all sorts of painful, miserable diseases, but since trial lawyers are allowed to bankrupt drug companies with impunity, regardless of whether or not they did anything wrong, many of these new drugs sit on the shelves and are never released.
So my question is: Why do Democrats keep stepping in the way of any and every attempt anyone makes to reform liability laws in this country? I think the answer lies in the percentage of trial lawyers who vote for and contribute funds to Democrats. Like criminals, trial lawyers OVERWHELMINGLY (in the 90% range) vote for and contribute to those who are on their side-Democrats.
This is just another example of Democrats putting their own short term interests above the interests of everyone in mainstream America. It is also one of the many reasons I laugh when I hear Democrats claim to represent the working man.
Is this the left's strategy to force us down the road to socialized medicine: Pre-emptively annihilate all competition and innovation so that Socialism won't have anything to destroy?
http://www.classaction-lawsuit.com/news_display.php?id=22
Remember Viox? That shut down 3 plants and killed 6,000 American jobs. Go Democrats. Eventually, trial lawyers are going to do to drug development what they did to flu vaccines-make it more of a liability than it is worth for companies to even try. There are many, many advanced drugs companies have developed for all sorts of painful, miserable diseases, but since trial lawyers are allowed to bankrupt drug companies with impunity, regardless of whether or not they did anything wrong, many of these new drugs sit on the shelves and are never released.
So my question is: Why do Democrats keep stepping in the way of any and every attempt anyone makes to reform liability laws in this country? I think the answer lies in the percentage of trial lawyers who vote for and contribute funds to Democrats. Like criminals, trial lawyers OVERWHELMINGLY (in the 90% range) vote for and contribute to those who are on their side-Democrats.
This is just another example of Democrats putting their own short term interests above the interests of everyone in mainstream America. It is also one of the many reasons I laugh when I hear Democrats claim to represent the working man.
Is this the left's strategy to force us down the road to socialized medicine: Pre-emptively annihilate all competition and innovation so that Socialism won't have anything to destroy?
http://www.classaction-lawsuit.com/news_display.php?id=22
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